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State College Spikes Game Notes - September 8 vs. Jamestown - Game 3

Published on September 8, 2013 under New York-Penn League (NYPL)
State College Spikes News Release


Sunday, September 8, 2013 - 7:05 p.m.

STATE COLLEGE SPIKES - St. Louis Cardinals (48-27) at

JAMESTOWN JAMMERS - Pittsburgh Pirates (43-32)

GAME 3, NYPL SEMIFINAL SERIES - Best-of-3 Series tied, 1-1

Starting Pitchers:

State College - RHP Andrew Pierce (2-2, 2 SV, 2.11)

Jamestown - LHP Cody Dickson (2-0, 2.37)

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-SPIKES FACE JAMMERS WITH SEASON ON THE LINE: The State College Spikes take on the Jamestown Jammers in third and deciding game of the best-of-3 New York-Penn League Semifinal Series tonight at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park. Jamestown took Game One, 6-5, on Friday at Russell Diethrick Park, while the Spikes took a 12-4 win last night at home. State College won the 2013 regular season series against Jamestown, 8-2. Jamestown leads the all-time regular season series, 41-39. The Jammers are making their first playoff appearance since 2010, when they earned the NYPL Wild Card berth and lost in the semifinals, 2-1, to Brooklyn.

-LAST GAME: Carson Kelly delivered a solo home run and brought in three runs total while Michael Schulze collected four hits to help the State College Spikes beat the Jamestown Jammers, 12-4, on Saturday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park and send the New York-Penn League Semifinal Series to a third and final game on Sunday. Kelly's homer to left field in the fifth inning gave the Spikes a 5-3 lead, and his two-run double in the sixth helped break the game wide open. Schulze knocked in a pair of runs and scored one as he became the first State College player to collect four hits in a postseason game. Luke Voit tied a Spikes club record by walking four times in one game, and added a single in the sixth to reach base five times on the night.

-PIERCE GETS GAME THREE START FOR SPIKES: Right-hander Andrew Pierce gets the start tonight for the Spikes in the third and final game of the Semifinal Series. Pierce has made three appearances against the Jammers this year, and has not allowed a run in 11 total innings over the course of those outings. The Cardinals selected the Stringer, MS native in the eighth round of the 2013 MLB Draft out of Southern Miss. Pierce has put together a 0.50 ERA in five outings since returning to action on August 17.

-DICKSON GETS THE BALL FOR JAMMERS: Left-hander Cody Dickson makes the start for Jamestown tonight. Dickson has made two starts against the Spikes this year, going a total of five innings against State College in a game suspended on June 25 and completed of August 29 in a no-decision. The southpaw then tossed five scoreless, one-hit innings against the Spikes on Tuesday night in another no-decision. Dickson, a native of Arlington, TX, was selected by the Pirates in the fourth round of the 2013 MLB Draft out of Sam Houston State.

-SPIKES TOP NYPL LEADERBOARDS : Steven Ramos clinched the Spikes' first ever batting title with a .341 average to best Aberdeen's Trey Mancini by 13 points, while David Washington copped the RBI crown with a club record 50 runs knocked in. Ramos also led the league with 86 hits on the year, while Washington's 40 walks (including eight intentional free passes) led the loop. In addition, pitcher Kevin Herget was one of five pitchers to earn seven wins on the season.

-SPIKE MARKS: Last night's game took 3 hours, 40 minutes to play, the second-longest nine-inning Spikes game in ballpark history...State College placed first in the NYPL in batting average at .275...Jamestown was second at .270...The Jammers led the league with 355 runs scored (Spikes-354)...State College has trailed Jamestown at some point in each of their last eight meetings, but the Spikes have won six of them

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